What is "monocracy"

Monocracy \Mo*noc"ra*cy\, n. [Mono- + -cracy, as in democracy.] Government by a single person; undivided rule.
--Sydney Smith.

n. autocracy

n. a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) [syn: dictatorship, absolutism, authoritarianism, Caesarism, despotism, one-man rule, shogunate, Stalinism, totalitarianism, tyranny]